Abstract:

In the context of the support provided by the United Nations Population Fund to the Ministry of Health and Population, it was agreed to prepare a five-year strategic plan to implement a series of interventions to ensure commodity security for family planning program in addition estimate required funds to implement identified interventions, to ensure the mobilization of required funds through the government or donor agencies. To prepare this plan, a desk review of all relevant documents and studies was included, among which was the National Population and Family Planning Strategy 2015-2030 and the plan extracted from it during the period 2015-2020, which was evaluated by experts in 2018. Also, the report on assessing the current status of securing the supply of family planning methods that was prepared through the project SEFPP; “Strengthen the Family Planning Program” funded by the United States Agency for International Development. Both partners agreed to adopt participatory approach to prepare the strategy, so during the implementation process some governorates were invited as well as the central level relevant staff. To develop this document a team, which constitutes from the logistics management department and the technical office at Family Planning and Population Sector as well as family planning directors and pharmacists from seven governorates: Cairo, Qualiobya, Sharkia, Beni-Suef, Assiut, Luxor and Aswan, in addition to the general administration of supply team and the technical office at the population and family planning sector, was formed to review and amend the pre-prepared draft of the plan. Two workshops were conducted, in which the team was divided into 3 working groups. In the first workshop, the materials that had been prepared in advance were reviewed, which is the summary report for the desk review and the review of the proposed strategic objective of the plan, as well as the main pillars of the proposed plan, in addition to discussing and agreeing on the quantitative objectives of the plan. After that, the working groups evaluated the issues of concern and arranged them in order of priority in light of the proposed criteria. The groups also reviewed the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges and identified the most important interventions to deal with priority issues. In the second workshop, it was agreed to include the suggestions of the working groups, to set goals and issues in the final form, and to include the proposed interventions for discussion and the activities to be included through them.